Because I was the one who dropped the weight attached to the bone onto
the other bone with the meniscus, the consistency might not have been as
great. The way I could have improved the consistency would be to attach
a force probe to the bone to record the exact impact force. The controlled
meniscus could have undergone more stress than the stress of the freeze-dried
meniscus because the intervals could have been more intense. Although I
did not have a force probe to record the results, I did make sure that each
time I dropped the weighted bone from the same height. Therefore, I allowed
the weight of the bone to impact the meniscus, so the results were pretty
accurate. I could have not let the freeze-dried meniscus have enough time
to thaw out before I tested it. If I had done this the freeze-dried meniscus
could have been harder than the controlled meniscus because it was frozen.